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This is exactly why TOS should show a diff or revision history. Failing that, there really ought to be an external website documenting changes.
by nwh 14y ago
This is exactly why TOS should show a diff or revision history. Failing that, there really ought to be an external website documenting changes.
- johncoogan 14y agoI believe TOS-DR is working on it... http://tos-dr.info/ http://tos-dr.info/ Seems like it hasn't been updated in a while though...
- neilk 14y agotosback.com from the EFF used to do this, but it was taken offline a few days ago. I think someone took a look at it after the Facebook user agreement thing and either wanted to upgrade it or noticed some problems.
- Aardwolf 14y agoFind the old text somewhere. Get the new text. Copypaste both in a text file. Then use diff or meld or another difftool of your choice to compare the two text files.
- panacea 14y agoPresumably they meant, when you're 'asked to agree' to new T&C's the diff changes in the new policy are highlighted. When presented with a new T&C's policy, shouldn't you explicitly be asked to agree to any changes from the previous one you agreed to rather than be presented with the entire 14 pages which approximately 0.00001% of people will ever read before agreeing to? (And please don't say you read every EULA you encounter in full)
- roc 14y agoThen they'll just shuffle wording to ensure the changes are however-many-pages they need to be so that no-one reads those either. In general: people who don't take the time to read or consider their Terms of Service are not going to take the time to read or consider the changes.